Before this time sending unmarried female missionaries was absolutely unheard of.

The rise of female missionaries to prominence was not without friction with men.

Female missionary doctors treated Chinese women and female missionaries managed girl's schools.

The early unmarried female missionaries were required to live with missionary families.

For example, female missionaries might systematically visit the strikers' wives in the home, relating a sob story of how a strike had destroyed their own families.

By the fall of 1914, out of 512 credential holders, 142 were female missionaries and evangelists.

Three female missionaries is working on the field.

Only the female missionaries were able to carry out this zenana (link) work.

Only female missionaries and older, retired couples are called to the Temple Square Mission.

She was also one of the first two single female missionaries of the LDS Church.